The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
THB President has refused to revoke tn
order consolidating the Missouri revenue
districts.
TIE Government is to institute coast
patrol to aid local authorities in quaran-
tine regulation.
A WASHINGTON rumor credits Secretary
Endicott with an intention to withdraw
from the Cabinet.
NEW YoRK's Supreme Court has re.
versed the decision prohibiting hotel
keepers from furnishing guests liquor at
meals on Sunday.
THE affairs of the Fidelity Bank at Gin
Cinnati grow worse as time and examina-
ton progresses The officers were again
arrested on the 22d
AT the session of the Travellers Pro
tective Association in st. Louis, GA the
23l, o. P. Pindell, of Xenia, o., was unan-
imously reelected president.
THERE is good authority for renewing
again the statement frequently made
that the President has no present idea Of
calling an extra session Of Congress,
IT is reported from Constantinople that
Russia and France have notified Turkey
that if the convention with England con-
corning Egypt is ratified, war will ensue.
"
ORDERS have been issued for the arrest
of Michael Davitt in Ireland, but they are
held in allegiance pending the passage Of
the Coercion bill in the British Parlla-
ment
THE impression prevails in London that
the real mission of Queen Kapiolani to
Europe is to sell the Kingdom OF Hawaii
before the reigning dynasty is ovorthrown
by revolution. H
IT is reported from Winnipeg that Ga
briel Dumont has crossed the frontier
from Montana and is now in the Sweet
Grass hills, and 1t is supposed exciting
the half-breeds.
PRESIDENTIAL postmasters' salaries
have been readjusted for the year &C
Cordlng TO earnings. For Missouri,
Arkansas, Kansas and Illinois they show
almost universal increase.
MRS. LOGAN has given orders to Miss
Adelaide Johnson, formerly Of St Louis,
who has been her guest at Washington
for some time, to make busts Of herself
and General Logan in marble.
THE President has accepted an invita-
ton to be the guest of Mr. G. W. Childs,
proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger,
during his visit to Philadelphia at the
time OF the constitutional centennial cele-
bration.
CAPTAIN JACK HUssEY, who was shot in
New York by a drunken policeman o
couple of weeks ago, died on the 2lst from
the effects of his wounds He had res
Cued more persons from drowning than
any man living.
FIRE destroyed upwards of a million
dollars worth of property at the Chicago
stock yards on the 25th. Hundreds of
hogs were roasted alive, and an immense
quantity of dressed and packed meat
made food for the flames.
A. G. LANCE, who was formerly in the
employ of L. G. Maron, of Muskegon,
Mich, and left that place about two years
ago with $4,000 Of stolen funds, has been
captured. He was inveigled across the
line from Canada 10 Vermont and ar
rested
THE board of trustees of Wells female
college voted on the 22i that women
should have representation in the board,
and Miss Helen +. Smith, the lady prin.
Cipal, and Mrs. Frances F. Cleveland, an
alumnus, were unanimously chosen
trustees.
THE impression is gaining in Europe
that the Pope will succeed in securing the
territorial area he is striving for, and es-
tablish, as the head of the church, his per-
sonal rulership over it, receiving am
bassadors and, IN short, become one Of
the sovereigns Of the earth.
INSTRUCTIONS have been given to Passed
Assistant-Surgeon Guiteras, Marin,
II ospital service, who is now at Key
West, Fla, to make scientific investiga
tion Of the disease prevailing in that city
especially with reference to the spectre
SCOPE condition Of the blood.
WIN. K. VAEDERBILTs yacht, the Alva
will start from New York on the morning
of July 2, on cruise around the world
carrying Mr.. Vanderbilt and a party o.
friends. The yacht will steam across the
Atlantic, up the Mediterranean Sea and
through the SueE Canal stopping, first al
Malta.
UNITED STATES MINISTER MCLANE pub
fishes a note stating that he offered Baror
Raymond de SELLER, who was recently
placed in lunatic asylum by relatives
and who, in 1886, in New York, declared
his intention Of becoming an American
citizen, only friendly services in securing
liberty.
SECRETARY ENDIcoTT has issued orders
assigning the recent graduates of the
Military Academy to duty as Second
Lieutenants. There are vacancies fol
only thirty S tx OF the sixty-fOur graduates